# Gondy — Twenty Years After character guide

> Gondy in Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Monsieur de Gondy, Abbé de Gondy, Monsieur le Coadjuteur

**First appearance:** 0044-xlv-the-beggar-of-st-eustache

## Snapshot

The coadjutor of Paris, a priest with a swordsman's instincts and a politician's appetite, preaching peace while arming the barricades.

## Who they are

Gondy is the Fronde's most dangerous kind of operator: a man of the cloth who understands that a well-timed riot is worth a hundred sermons. He cultivates the people, flatters the great, and keeps his own counsel so carefully that even his allies cannot say where his ambition ends and his faith begins. In the early arc he is the quiet engine of Parisian unrest, the man who can make a crowd appear or vanish with a word, and whose friendship is as perilous as his enmity.

## In the story

### [VII: Touches Upon the Strange Effects a Half-Pistole May Have Upon a Beadle and a Chorister](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/chapters/vii-touches-upon-the-strange-effects-a-half-pistole-may-have-upon-a-beadle-and-a-chorister)

The coadjutor, seen officiating mass at Notre Dame, courting popularity.

### [The Abbé Scarron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/chapters/xxi-the-abb-scarron)

The coadjutor, enters the salon and exchanges secret words with Aramis.

### [The Beggar of St. Eustache](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/chapters/xlv-the-beggar-of-st-eustache)

Visits the Palais Royal, is slighted, then begins organizing a rebellion with Louvières and curates.

### [The Tower of St. Jacques de la Boucherie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/chapters/xlvi-the-tower-of-st-jacques-de-la-boucherie)

Coordinates the Fronde uprising, meeting with Planchet, Rochefort, and the mendicant in the tower.

### [The Riot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/chapters/xlvii-the-riot)

Leads the nocturnal preparations and later calms the crowd, securing the marshal's promise.

### [XLVIII: The Riot Becomes a Revolution](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/chapters/xlviii-the-riot-becomes-a-revolution)

Coadjutor who mediates between the queen and the people, securing the release order.

### [XLIX: Misfortune Refreshes the Memory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/chapters/xlix-misfortune-refreshes-the-memory)

The coadjutor, more powerful than the monarchy, advises Rochefort to let Beaufort continue his journey, sensing the queen's intent for a counterstroke.

### [The Carriage of Monsieur le Coadjuteur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/chapters/lii-the-carriage-of-monsieur-le-coadjuteur)

The Coadjuteur whose carriage is stolen by d'Artagnan; his arms on the carriage allow the deception.

### [The Battle of Charenton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/chapters/lxxviii-the-battle-of-charenton)

The coadjutor (Gondy) leads the Frondeur forces, performs acts of valor, and tries to reform his regiment after Chanleu falls.

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